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Teacher Prompt Library
Reviewed, classroom-ready AI prompt templates
Every template uses the SATHI structure with marked variables, a filled example, its review requirements and its privacy note. Teacher review before classroom use is always required.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. Apply the test: does the story fail without the concept?
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Concept as decoration — the story-fails-without-it test · Moralising last line sneaks in
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Creative writing task with productive constraints
Constraints that spark originality instead of limiting it.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. The no-model-answer rule protects originality — resist adding one.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: A 'sample' creeps in — the local-anchor + no-model rules are the safeguards
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Cross-age teaching project (older students make for younger)
Older students design learning materials for a younger class — authentic audience.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Frame too prescriptive about the product — format choice is the students' design decision
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Debate kit with asymmetric briefing packs
A contestable motion with different evidence per side — argument becomes necessary.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. Verify both packs' evidence against the textbook; check the packs genuinely differ.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Symmetric packs — the flop rebuilt; check evidence differs · Motions touching student identity — forbidden
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Design challenge with trade-off constraints
Constraints that force choices; testable success criteria; reflection on trade-offs.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Criteria that need teacher opinion — 'testable' means measurable
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Gallery/museum walk with artefact cards
Stations of source/artefact cards with observation prompts — analysis on foot.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. Verify any textbook-based source against the book; label fictional sources as fictional.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Invented 'historical sources' presented as real — fictional must be labelled
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Investigable vs non-investigable question sort
Teach students what makes a question testable — with a sorting deck.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Categories printed on the cards — the sort must be the students' thinking
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~5 min Premium
One-pager synthesis task (visual + verbal)
End-of-unit synthesis on a single page mixing sketch, quote and connection.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: 'Artistic quality' sneaks into criteria — completeness and own-words only
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Project frame (driving question to exhibition)
The full PBL frame: question, milestones, roles, criteria, exhibition.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Driving question too broad to own — it should fit in one sentence a student would say
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Simulation with private role sheets and scenario clock
A decision-rich role-play with timed injects and a debrief that lands the learning.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Roles with no real decisions — private sheets must create genuine tension · Debrief dropped for time — it IS the lesson
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~5 min Premium
Structured brainstorm protocol (quantity before judgement)
A class ideation session with rules that protect wild ideas.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Protocol collapses into open discussion — the phases and script keep structure
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Teach-back activity design (students as explainers)
Students prepare and deliver a micro-lesson to peers — deepest practice there is.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Planning card so detailed it writes the explanation — cards prompt, never script
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~5 min Premium
What-if scenario set for discussion
Counterfactuals that stretch understanding beyond the textbook case.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: What-ifs needing untaught content — 'answerable from the taught concept' is the boundary
All example outputs are illustrative teaching fictions. AI drafts; the teacher remains responsible for accuracy, fairness, privacy and classroom fit.